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You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.
Sep 26, 2025
If you own this story you get to write the ending.
Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.
Someone might steal your childhood, but they can't steal your will. There is a point where you're given the opportunity in life to stop blaming everyone else and start taking responsibility for your life.
Take full responsibility for your life, move forward in the direction of your dreams
One of the most powerful things you can do is take responsibility for your life. Your choices. Your actions. Your Life.
To achieve major success in life - to achieve those things that are most important to you - you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.
We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
If you take the responsibility for your life you can start changing it. Slow will be the change, only in the course of time will you start; moving into the world of light and crystallization, but once you are crystallized you will know what real revolution is. Then share your revolution with others; it has to go that way, from heart to heart.
You must not ever stop being whimsical.
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
I'm convinced that a lot of people simply don't know what's available out there and how it is possible to find a job and work your way up if you are willing to accept responsibility for your life. I know what it's like to be on the bottom. I've been broke. I've been fired seven times from jobs. And I don't even have a college degree. But I didn't blame anyone else for my problems. I knew that if I didn't try to solve them on my own or with the help of friends or family members, no one else was going to take care of me.
As soon as you take responsibility for your life, you can change the world.
If you take the responsibility for your life, you can start changing it.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
It is only hard work that brings about results, doing things for others. Forget about your problems. Take responsibility for your life and make it into something beautiful in the midst of changing circumstances.
You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life -- that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
It is time to stop looking outside yourself for the answers to why you haven't created the life and results you want, for it is you who creates the quality of life you lead and the results you produce. You-no one else! To achieve major success in life-to achieve those things that are most important to you-you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.
You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.
The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.
One of the first things successful people realize is the old adage, “If it is to be, it is up to me.” That is, for you, the fact that your success and your course is up to you. This doesn’t mean that you do it all alone. It simply means that you take responsibility for your life and your career.
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
You really have so little choice - so little to decide. You get put through the machine and it chops you up and spits you out. Your life, it's all mechanical, of the machine, until you have free will. You can't be accepted into the Work until you have matured -- freed yourself and take responsibility for your life, become accountable for your every action. It's not just from coming to a school. It's an active process - you have to take the responsibility for yourself. When you're trapped in the machine, it doesn't matter what you do.
One of the greatest challenges in creating a joyful, peaceful and abundant life is taking responsibility for what you do and how you do it. As long as you can blame someone else, be angry with someone else, point the finger at someone else, you are not taking responsibility for your life.
The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.